June 8 2023
 
Good morning from Washington, where Americans may be surprised to learn that two of President Biden’s nominees for Air Force promotions appear more interested in diversity than deadliness. Fred Lucas reports. In California, a gay teacher gets sidelined for complaining about the transgender agenda at a school board meeting. Tony Kinnett has details. A worried Left calls a national emergency on LGBTQ rights, Jarrett Stepman observes. On the podcast, why antisemitism is on the rise in the U.S. Plus: a new congressional probe of the Justice Department’s interest in investigating school parents; ESG investing gets slammed in a House hearing; and female athletes go to court to protect women’s sports. On this date in 1913, Alaskan missionary  Hudson Stuck leads the first successful ascent of Mt. McKinley, now called Denali, the highest point in North America.
 
 
 
NEWS
EXCLUSIVE: Demos, ACLU Among ‘Voter Advocacy Groups’ Helping Federal Agencies Turn Out Vote on Biden’s Order
By Fred Lucas

Liberal “voter advocacy groups” are assisting at least one federal agency in implementing President Biden’s executive order requiring the government to register voters, The Daily Signal has learned.
ANALYSIS
Legacy Media Echo SPLC Report Comparing Parental Rights Groups to the KKK
By Tyler O'Neil

Legacy media outlets parrot a leftist group that smeared concerned moms and dads, putting parental rights organizations on a “hate” map alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.
NEWS
Rep. Andy Biggs Asks If Mayorkas Violated Border Security Law. ‘Yes,’ Expert Answers.
By Virginia Allen

Rep. Andy Biggs questions Steven Bradbury, a distinguished fellow at The Heritage Foundation, on whether DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas violated immigration and border security law.
COMMENTARY
US Foreign Aid Used to Push Abortion, Gender Ideology Around the World
By Tim Meisburger

Federal agencies and nongovernmental aid organizations increasingly promote a far-left agenda in their programs—including climate change and radical LGBTQ and gender ideology.
NEWS
Ted Cruz TORCHES Leftist Group for Demonizing Moms for Liberty
By Tyler O'Neil

Sen. Ted Cruz slams the Southern Poverty Law Center, focusing on its decision to place parental rights groups such as Moms for Liberty on a “hate map” alongside KKK chapters.
ANALYSIS
Football Coach Builds ‘An Army of Normal Folks’ to Solve America’s Problems
By Rob Bluey

Bill Courtney made his mark in Memphis as the volunteer football coach of the Manassas Tigers and a successful businessman. Now, he’s taking his message to a much larger audience.
COMMENTARY
Pride Comes Before the Fall
By Sarah Parshall Perry, Seth Lucas

In a matter of weeks, Target and Anheuser-Busch lost a combined $40.8 billion in market value over their LGBTQ+ Pride-focused marketing campaigns.
NEWS
He Went Undercover to Expose ‘Rubber-Stamping’ of Trans Surgeries
By Mary Margaret Olohan

After just a 22-minute phone call, an undercover reporter posing as a transgender-identifying patient says he received a letter of support for the removal of his testicles.
NEWS
ICYMI: 3 Arrested After Antifa Clashes With Armenian Parents at California School Board Meeting
By Tony Kinnett

Several fights break out between Antifa and parental rights activists outside school district headquarters in Glendale, California, during a school board discussion of LGBTQ+ curriculum.
 
     
 
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